KJV King James Version
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
WEB World English Bible
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
ASV American Standard Version
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation—unspotted to keep himself from the world.
Surrounding context — James 1
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
θρησκείαG2356 · thrēskeiareligionκαθαρὰG2513 · katharoscleanκαὶG2532 · kaiandἀμίαντοςG283 · amiantospureπαρὰG3844 · parafrom/with/besideτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεῷG2316 · theosGodκαὶG2532 · kaiandπατρὶG3962 · patērfatherαὕτηG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itἐστίν,G1510 · eimito beἐπισκέπτεσθαιG1980 · episkeptomaito visit/care forὀρφανοὺςG3737 · orphanosorphanκαὶG2532 · kaiandχήραςG5503 · chērawidowἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoθλίψειG2347 · thlipsispressureαὐτῶν,G846 · autosit/s/heἄσπιλονG784 · aspilosspotlessἑαυτὸνG1438 · heautouthemselfτηρεῖνG5083 · tēreōto keep: observeἀπὸG575 · apoaway fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμου.¶G2889 · kosmosworld
Cross-references
Isaiah 1:16-17Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;1 John 3:17-19But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?Galatians 6:9-10And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.Romans 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.Matthew 25:34-46Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:Isaiah 58:6-7[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?1 John 2:15-17Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.Job 31:15-20Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?1 Timothy 5:4But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.Job 29:12-13Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.Colossians 3:1-3If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.Psalm 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.James 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.Psalm 119:1ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.Isaiah 1:23Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.James 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.Matthew 5:8Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
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